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Thursday, December 07, 2006
Another Flop in Allergy Cooking
I attempted substituting allergy safe ingredients for our speculaas cookies. I only made a half batch. The resulting dough was tasty, but the cookie didn't hold their shape when baking. The results looked like lace cookies, spread out and with holes.
So you can learn from my mistakes, here are the ingredients:
1 cup Spectrum shortening
1 cup brown sugar
1/4 Tofutti sour cream
1/4 tsp. soda
2 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
1/4 tsp. cloves
1/2 cup white rice flour
1/2 cup oat flour
1/2 cup tapioca starch
1/2 cup potato starch
1/4 cup corn starch
I omitted the nuts. The dough was very close to consistency and taste of the original.
But he had fun rolling and cutting....
and tasting!So success with taste and fun, but failure at baking. Two out of three isn't that bad!
16:50 Posted in Liturgical Year | Permalink | Comments (6) | Email this | Tags: speculaas, st. nicholas, speculatius, Cooking for Christ
Comments
Oh, Jenn, I am sorry the cookies didn't work out as you'd hoped, but your son is just adorable! Looks like lots of fun. :)
Posted by: Dawn | Friday, December 08, 2006
Oh, Jenn, he's just darling!!! Sorry to hear about your failed experiment -- I'm experimenting about springerle on this end... no success to report yet either. But it looks like you had a lot of fun!
Posted by: stef | Sunday, December 10, 2006
Well, don't feel too bad--we had to chisel our Speculaas off of the cookie sheet. We ended up with enough whole cookies to give a little gift to Fr. after St. Nicholas day Mass. No one seemed to mind all the broken, chipped off cookies (of course they got to eat them).
Posted by: Gwen | Monday, December 11, 2006
Well, at least you had fun, right ? :)
Posted by: Rebecca | Friday, December 08, 2006
I decided to take you up on your challenge to better this allergy-free recipe (sorry it's a little late). It turned out really well. If you would like to see the recipe and picture you can go to the link (there were too many changes and directions to try to post it here in the comments)
http://felicitasrecipes.lifewithchrist.org/permalink/29240
I love your allergy-free recipes by the way!
Posted by: Kimbrah | Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Jenn-
I am glad you liked the recipe. They did not spread more than normal cookies do, just a little bit. I buy the Nucoa margerine at Albertson's. I think it does have hydrogenated oils in it, but it works really great for cooking. I haven't had has much luck with the Spectrum margerine.
Posted by: Kimbrah | Thursday, January 04, 2007
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